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'''BRAES OF BUSHBIE [2]'''. AKA – "Braes of Busbie." Scottish, Slow March (4/4 time) or Strathspey. A Dorian (Aird, O'Farrell): G Minor (Cole, Hardie): G Dorian (Cranford). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC (Cole, Hardy): AABBCC (O'Farrell): ABABCCD (Howe): AABBCCD (Cranford). In lowland Scots dialect, a brae is a hillside. Busby is a district in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The melody | |f_annotation='''BRAES OF BUSHBIE [2]'''. AKA – "Breeze of Busbey (The)," "Braes of Busbie." AKA and see "[[Duke of Sutherland's March]]." Scottish, Slow March (4/4 time) or Strathspey. A Dorian (Aird, O'Farrell): G Minor (Cole, Hardie): G Dorian (Cranford). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC (Cole, Hardy): AABBCC (O'Farrell): ABABCCD (Howe): AABBCCD (Cranford). In lowland Scots dialect, a brae is a hillside. Busby is a district in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The melody was composed by John Bowie, and first appears in his '''Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c.''' (c. 1789). A note in Nathaniel Gow's '''Sixth Collection''' (1822) says that it was favorite of Niel Gow's, and that it is "Old". | ||
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In Ireland, Co. Leitrim piper and fiddler [[biography:Stephen Grier]] entered the tune, set as a reel, in Book 2 of his c. 1883 music manuscript collection as "Breeze of Busbey." Reworked as "[[Dowd's Favorite (1)]]," the reel was famously recorded by Sligo/New York City fiddler Michael Coleman. Piper Willie Clancy had a reel time setting of the tune, called "Braes of Busby," in a major tonality. | |||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Cape Breton strathspey setting is from fiddler Bill Lamey via Jerry Holland (Inverness, Cape Breton) [Cranford]; McFadyen's Repository (1795) [Henderson]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Aird ('''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 6'''), 1803; No. 91, p. 35. John Bowie ('''A Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c.'''), c. 1789; p. 5. | |||
Aird ('''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 6'''), 1803; No. 91, p. 35. | |||
Cole ('''1000 Fiddle Tunes'''), 1940; p. 128. | Cole ('''1000 Fiddle Tunes'''), 1940; p. 128. | ||
Cranford ('''Jerry Holland's Collection of Fiddle Tunes'''), 1995; No. 187, p. 53. | Cranford ('''Jerry Holland's Collection of Fiddle Tunes'''), 1995; No. 187, p. 53. | ||
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Henderson ('''Flowers of Scottish Melody'''), 1935; no. 21, p. 8. | Henderson ('''Flowers of Scottish Melody'''), 1935; no. 21, p. 8. | ||
Howe ('''1000 Jigs and Reels'''), c. 1867; p. 134. | Howe ('''1000 Jigs and Reels'''), c. 1867; p. 134. | ||
McFadyen ('''Repository of Scots and Irish Airs, vol. | McFadyen ('''Repository of Scots and Irish Airs, vol. 2'''), c. 1800; p. 22. | ||
O'Farrell ('''Pocket Companion, vol. 2'''), c. 1806; p. 140 (appears as "Braes of Busbie"). | O'Farrell ('''Pocket Companion, vol. 2'''), c. 1806; p. 140 (appears as "Braes of Busbie"). | ||
'''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''', 1883; p. 167 (strathspey setting). | '''Ryan's Mammoth Collection''', 1883; p. 167 (strathspey setting). | ||
Jean White ('''100 Popular Hornpipes, Reels, Jigs and Country Dances'''), Boston, 1880; p. 21. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Alia Vox AVSA 9878, Jordi Savall - "The Celtic Viol. II" (2010). | |||
Jerry O'Sullivan – "O'Sullivan meets O'Farrell" (2005). | |||
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Jerry O'Sullivan – "O'Sullivan meets O'Farrell" (2005). | |||
Latest revision as of 02:26, 30 December 2023
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BRAES OF BUSHBIE [2]. AKA – "Breeze of Busbey (The)," "Braes of Busbie." AKA and see "Duke of Sutherland's March." Scottish, Slow March (4/4 time) or Strathspey. A Dorian (Aird, O'Farrell): G Minor (Cole, Hardie): G Dorian (Cranford). Standard tuning (fiddle). ABC (Cole, Hardy): AABBCC (O'Farrell): ABABCCD (Howe): AABBCCD (Cranford). In lowland Scots dialect, a brae is a hillside. Busby is a district in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The melody was composed by John Bowie, and first appears in his Collection of Strathspey Reels and Country Dances &c. (c. 1789). A note in Nathaniel Gow's Sixth Collection (1822) says that it was favorite of Niel Gow's, and that it is "Old".
In Ireland, Co. Leitrim piper and fiddler biography:Stephen Grier entered the tune, set as a reel, in Book 2 of his c. 1883 music manuscript collection as "Breeze of Busbey." Reworked as "Dowd's Favorite (1)," the reel was famously recorded by Sligo/New York City fiddler Michael Coleman. Piper Willie Clancy had a reel time setting of the tune, called "Braes of Busby," in a major tonality.
